Gardner Business Media Survey Helps Manufacturing Marketers Better Reach Buyers with New Data and Insights on Industrial Buying
The Gardner Business Media Industrial Buying Influence (IBI) 2020 examines behaviors and influencers impacting the industrial manufacturing technology purchase process. The series offers a comprehensive analysis of how media and marketing impact the industrial buying cycle in discrete parts manufacturing. Specifically, the pace and the process by which buying teams evaluate, research and decide on purchases; and, the media types and messaging strategies that inform each stage of that purchase process. Results include observations and raw data investigating primary trends in B2B industrial marketing and media usage.

The Gardner Business Media Industrial Buying Influence (IBI) 2020 examines behaviors and influencers impacting the industrial manufacturing technology purchase process. The IBI series offers a comprehensive analysis of how media and marketing impact the industrial buying cycle in discrete parts manufacturing. Specifically, the pace and the process by which buying teams evaluate, research and decide on purchases; and, the media types and messaging strategies that inform each stage of that purchase process. The survey results include observations and raw data investigating primary trends in business-to-business industrial marketing and media usage. Read more
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